News Roundup - Hour 1
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2010-09-24/news-roundup-hour-1
The GOP announces a “Pledge to America.” President Obama touts new health care benefits now taking effect. And the White House prepares to lose key players after the midterms. A panel of journalists joins guest host Katty Kay for analysis of the week's top national news stories.
Guests
Dante Chinni
correspondent for the Patchwork Nation Project for PBS NewsHour and the Christian Science Monitor.
Karen Tumulty
national political reporter, The Washington Post.
Greg Ip
U.S. economics editor, The Economist, and author of "The Little Book of Economics: How the Economy Works in the Real World."
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News Roundup Video
The panelists assess the GOP's "Pledge to America," a plan for bolstering the fragile U.S. economy that Republican leadership unveiled earlier in the week. New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has called the Pledge "nonsense," claiming the numbers don't add up:
The panelists discuss the ongoing influence of the Tea Party movement ahead of the November elections and note that the activists emphasize different issues in various geographical areas. The PBS NewsHour, under Dante Chinni's direction, has just published a map of the nation tracking where Tea Party meet-ups have taken place over the past few months:
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I find it rather disingeneous of the GOP to speak about the increase deficits and the lack of a balanced budget. Is the American memory so short that they have forgotten that it was President Clinton's policies that put the economy in a correction course and that it only took President George W. Bush to turn the economy around in the wrong direction with a majority Republicn Congress?
we used to hear about the silent majority I believe now too much attention is paid to the boisterous minority!
At the core is an immensely wealthy minority called the oligarchy. Republican contracts on America are their method of propitiating the gods of contribution. Look for Democrats to worship separately with more trade agreements and counterinsurgency strategies at home and away. Meanwhile enjoy Kochoganda between sloppings of tripe on TV. My estimation is that Democrats boil us frogs while Repulicans prefer exploding us in the microwave. We've got to get beyond these pretend elections and assert our needs.
As we hear more of the Republican agenda, we can see their true colors -- the color of MONEY.
This week we heard a hedge fund manager complaining about new financial regulations ("...we feel like a pinata" whined Mr. Scaramucci).
We also heard loud complaints from the Republican Tea Party against "ObamaCare" provisions that are beginning to take effect, including coverage for children with pre-existing conditions (Autism, Down Syndrome, heart defects, etc.). As a (now retired) special ed teacher, I find this extremism totally repugnant -- but quite revealing -- that children with special needs are in the crosshairs of insurance lobbyists and Republican right-wing fanatics.
My wish is for someone who votes for what is best and right for this country. So tired of the no votes and voting only with the party. It is so sad that their vote is only for the reason of reelection.
The GOP Promise is simply too long for the abbreviated American attention span. The 94 Contract worked because it cribbed from the David Letterman top10 list. It was short and could be easily grasped by the average person in the space of 10 minutes.
The 45 pages of this Promise document are not going to be read by anyone aside from the members who wrote it and a few copy editors toiling in the basement of the RNC.
Isn't it a little "emperor has no clothes" for nobody to have told them this before the big reveal?
I like the panel for the Hour 1 today. Genuine opinions with no one seeming to adhere to the talking points of some think tank that pays their paycheck.
There is are some news that have gone unreported, and that now because of several court cases have come to light GMAC and other "SERVICERS" that is the fact that millions of homes have been foreclosed with forged documents and false affidavits, incomplete accounting of moneys and fees that were paid into the mortgages for the life of the loans.
When are we really understand that these people have to forge and procure false documentation because the entities foreclosing are not the real creditors but middlemen that never put any money on the table. This is not business as usual this is the institutionalization of fraud as a normal way of doing business.
The GMAC admission that they did forge and created affidavits and they never checked the accounting in depth, means that any one with some smarts may be able to steal any ones home in America, Virginia and DC have non judicial foreclosure procedures. You can foreclose on any one just by sending them a couple of letters and the courts have refused to give borrowers access to due process.
This is wrong the constitutions warrants that no one can take somebody else's property without due process. Non Judicial foreclosures allow for undetected fraud practices to perpetuate and damage the fabric of our communities.
These borrowers are not dead beats they are victims of a massive fraud scheme. These middle men would rather foreclose in a hurry that to provide a full accounting of the mortgage transaction. They know most people just give up and walk away.
The GMAC admission that they did forge and created affidavits and they never checked the accounting in depth, means that any one with some smarts may be able to steal any ones home in America, Virginia and DC have non judicial foreclosure procedures. You can foreclose on any one just by sending them a couple of letters and the courts have refused to give borrowers access to due process.
This is wrong the constitutions warrants that no one can take somebody else's property without due process. Non Judicial foreclosures allow for undetected fraud practices to perpetuate and damage the fabric of our communities.
These borrowers are not dead beats they are victims of a massive fraud scheme. These middle men would rather foreclose in a hurry that to provide a full accounting of the mortgage transaction. They know most people just give up and walk away.
Pledge to America, I agree, too long.
Obama forgot to tout the fact that Medicare supplemental insurance premiums are going up hugely. What about the Dept of Labor revelation that 60% of employer-based plans will not be allowed under Healthcare Reform? What happened to if you like your plan you can keep it?
Is it not incredible that Obama's economic team is fleeing prior to the mid-terms?
I can't let the Jesse Jackson Jr. scandal go by without commenting, like father like son...